Coding is the alphabet of 21st century. It is the way we think and we write. This weekend the historical city of Prizren hosted its very first hackathon CoderGals with the intention of gathering girls from around Kosovo to work on open source projects and to contribute for an open society.
The event is the first that is supported from the Debian OS and the first of it’s kind to start the Debian OS series of meetings in Kosovo.
Organizers
Qendresa and Albiona
Prizren, city of Dokufest
The 48h hackathon created many networks of people and engaged them on different projects.
Groups working on their projects
CoderGals, the way we construct minds
CoderGals is the first hackathon of its kind and the only held in Prizren. I and my sister Qendresa with the intention of popularizing the computer programming organized the two day hackathon which gathered 26 girls from around Kosovo. Participants worked on groups of five contributing to existing open source projects and started projects from scratch. There was a variety of projects targeting mobile devices, web technologies, and online communication technologies.
Qendresa welcoming the participants
“The fellowship” of the Mentors
The mentoring…
Daniel Pocock, our guest from Debian observing the teams and their progress
2 participants brainstorming
4 CoderGals enjoying the cinema ambient
Projects
AndroidGals
Worked on solving issues and improving the Vanilla music, an android audio player.
Android Gals
Spider Gals
Scraping FX exchange rates from public web sites, sending on an AMQP topic or into Database.
Spider Gals
ARS team
Created a plugin for JSCommunicator using Laravel framework.
ARSTeam Gals
WORRKAT
Using PyQt to make a window that appears when somebody clicks a “tel:” URI and simulates a phone client.
WORRKAT Gals
Code breakers
Created a wordpress plugin for JSCommunicator.
Code Breaker member watch a tutorial on how to make a wordpress plugin
We would like to thank all participants, mentors and sponsors for making it happen.
